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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #5124 / 7420
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1181 / 1268
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3173 / 3864
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4802 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #1837 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #406 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #338 / 703
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #491 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #711 / 753
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1022 / 1624
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #48 / 322
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3777 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 49
Position: #188 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #113 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #41 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #96 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #153 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 77
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #148 / 270
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #84 / 291
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #62 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #81 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1756 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #103 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #115 / 259
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #155 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #231 / 424
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 39
Position: #173 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1095 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #208 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Add Go XML to structure tags - 170 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #63 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #834 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #141 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3218 / 4180
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #985 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 300
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #520 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1148 / 3683
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #411 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #274 / 1078
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #300 / 754
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #481 / 777
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1582 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #300 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 37
Position: #3500 / 3694
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 48
Position: #1325 / 1706
Number of attempts: 1